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Welcome to my world. I'm Tricia Gloria Nabaye, on a mission to advocate for gender equality, human rights, and democratic governance through the lens of feminist intersectional practices. With nine years of experience, I've honed my skills to be a force for positive change. My strengths lie in problem-solving and effective cross-cultural collaboration, and I thrive in leadership roles. My analytical perspective ensures that my advocacy is data-driven and impactful. My primary focus is on feminist leadership consulting, where I provide valuable insight and guidance. I also offer rapporteur services, ensuring that essential discussions are documented and shared. As a feminist researcher, my deep commitment lies in addressing gender issues, empowering women and girls, and advancing public policy advocacy. I'm a visionary dedicated to shaping the future of advocacy with a strong focus on human rights. Join me in our journey to drive positive change. Together, we can build a world where gender equality and human rights are at the forefront, ensuring a more inclusive and just society for all.

Thursday, November 26, 2015

LOVE RAN BLACK:Tales of the town girl

See, she chose vanity over reason. And sometimes, she would forget what the mind had to say. But not so fast, let me tell you why she made such a decision.

There was a time, when she had  all that life could have possibly give. But one thing was a constant, there was always a deficit for love. No one was teaching her the right things and no one was changing, not even the ones that meant the best of things for her. She loved for sure, but she had a one way street going for her. So then, what makes it so hard for vanity to make comfort in her room?

The town girl, had seen the most of life, the town girl had always made room for her love and yet the evasion was taking longer than usual. It was just a matter of time before the walls caved in, there she stood unveiled to the fact that the people she once called friends were actually, vomiting venom of hate, anger and all that stands in the road of disaster. She was learning a new lesson: that people hurt and that the love so deep in the hearts of men was not visible in touch. The town girl grew cold with the touch of men, she grew cold to the love of friends. How was it possible that men could choose hate for love, how was it that hatred stood in the hearts made for love? That was the dilemma of the town girl.
The tears streamed all night for an answer to humanity's loss of genuine love and far beyond her hold, she learnt that to stand on your own was safer. She chose to live a life she could mark out, one she could find a destiny of no pain, no regrets. She chose vanity and a little of fun in the go. To find a redemption for the pain that hang in her heart.

So today she stands, alone but happy. Far from spiting tongues and vulture hearts. Far from all the pain that could not redeem her soul, for the love her heart desired.
Was she hurt? Very much so but she learnt that to let your heart open for more was going to cause her more pain than what she felt,she learnt well to guard her heart with reason, a little vanity and no regard for second guessing, she made a bed in making the heart feel a little alive in the things vanity had to offer. You know those things; manicured nails, a great smile, very expensive clothes, over the top hotels suites and more in the knowledge of this world.
The town girl did all that she could, to stay alive. She learnt the language of the city and she chose the adventure of the world. So today, no one can beat the town girl to the life she has chosen, for in it she found a re-birth.

Now she walks a journey I am starting to understand, don't blame her...life made her and so did the people in it.
 

Wednesday, November 25, 2015

REVISITNG CCEDU'S ROLE IN ELECTORAL DEMOCRACY: 1/3

Citizens' Coalition for Electoral Democracy in Uganda in the wake of voter engagement and electoral democracy joined together with other civil societies and made a coalition with a need of engaging the citizenry in the search for electoral reforms in Uganda in order to have free and fair electoral processes and elections. CCEDU through their many engagements with the citizenry in their two foundational campaigns: "Honor your vote" and " Face the citizens" compiled eight key reform areas that make up the Citizens 'Electoral Reform Agenda (CERA handbook).*

While the 2011 elections were deemed free and fair, one can testify that they were far from the picture of free and fair, given the impunity of many leaders, the arbitrary arrests, yellow journalism among many other atrocities that characterized the said free and fair elections. Granted that Uganda carries out free regular elections, CCEDU* through  the CERA handbook hoped to table eight important key foundations that push if not transform the electoral democracy environment of Uganda.

From the sidelines, I have continuously engaged and watched the proceedings of CCEDU and to track through the last five years, CCEDU has pushed for the reforms through a number of endeavors in the need for their realization before the 2016 general elections, among those were:

Parliamentary meetings held in parliament and committee meetings where they tabled the  CERA reforms in order to have them put on the flow of parliament. Also key note parliamentarians were employed to front certain CERA reforms individually before the 10th parliament.

CCEDU also distributed its own National ID observers to help monitor the National ID process that will then inform the National voter registry; to follow up on that exercise, CCEDU launched the "votability" campaign that helped to push the citizenry to check the voter registry to ascertain their details and polling station. Through the votability campaign, voter awareness and the role the citizenry have to play to ensure their votability or rather their ability to vote in the coming general elections. In that regard, CCEDU managed to make the Electoral Commission to push forward their deadlines in order to give the citizens/voters ample time to cross check their names and polling stations in preparation of the coming 2016 general elections.

Recently, the "Topowa" campaign was launched in line with the coming general election. Its emphasis being on voter awareness  to remind the citizenry that their vote counts at all costs and them voting was and will not be a waste of time. So indeed, "Topowa" as the vernacular word denotes is in a way a campaign to that reminds the people  not to give up their voting rights and as well not to give up their power to choose their next leaders.

CCEDU today is part and parcel of a monitoring and observation organization, that bring together 15 Civil Society organizations under the umbrella name; Citizens' Election Observation Network (CEON-Uganda) gearing up and getting ready to monitor the pre-election, election and post-election processes in Uganda ahead of the 2016 general elections.

Today, CCEDU stands at a marked line, in reawakening the role of the citizens in deciding who their leaders will be. In the need to understand such a cause, one needs to understand the CERA and assess its viability and its success towards delivery us beyond 2011 in our search for Electoral integrity and democracy. Join me as we, unveil the rest of this rewarding and effortful work.


*CCEDU: Citizens' Coalition for Electoral Democracy in Uganda was launched on 19th August,2009, as a non-partisan, non profit broad civil society coalition. It brings together over 600 like-minded civil society organizations to advocate for comprehensive electoral democracy in Uganda.
*CERA: The Citizens' Electoral Reform Agenda Handbook is a product of the tireless works of a technical team of experts who carefully studied the recommendations and proposals made by various election observe groups and individuals in the aftermath of the 2011 general elections.

Friday, November 20, 2015

THE DANGER OF A SINGLE MAN'S WAR

Have you ever found yourself at the center of strife? Have you ever found yourself at the center of a war you didn't begin and don't want to start or sustain? What do you do? Or rather what did you do?
Recently, I was awaken to the fact that not everyone desires peace as I do. My great insightful friend, Chelsea came with a reality truth that I was closing my eyes to.

As always, bubbling but a great voice of reason for me to learn from. She told me of a time when she stood at the other end of a never ending battle, one she didn't want to start, sustain or even end up in. Her disgust was in the dilemma of why one person would choose war over peace, isn't it more peaceful and easier to live with less enemies than with them? You see, the danger of sharing friends for her lay in the fact that, the other friend wanted all that Chelsea had., her friends and her life but above it all her job. You never change a person, much less their character and that is something Chelsea didn't know. So there she stood a victim of hate, anger and envy yet all she ever desired was the ability for normal conversation, a group hug and all that is not war. Through Chelsea's experience I have come to pick a few lessons on the danger of a one man war and how to survive one;

1. YOU NEVER KNOW HOW TO STOP THE OTHER PERSON
I mean the person who has declared war because all they want is a piece of you and at whatever cost they will drag you down with you. So be ready for a never ending war. For them at whatever cost, they will let the war wage on.

2. YOUR SILENCE IS YOUR BEST ALLY
You see, it is true, silence is golden and it could be the best weapon to rivalry and strife. Now for my talkative Chelsea we had to go about silence little by little until she mastered how to shut up. So, however inclined you are to say something, keep your mouth shut for whatever is said in anger is sure going to cause a spark for more battle lines.

3. KEEP YOUR PEACE
No matter what happens to make you mad, keep your cool. Its is very rewarding to see the face of the warrior when the person they aim their attack on is cool and composed even when they provoke them. Keep your cool and don't at any time, lose your temper while the war wager sees, maybe when you are alone but not when they are seeing.

4. PRAY ABOUT IT
Start to pray about the war that is lagging in the air, other than taking your burdens to God, it is easier to lighten up when you speak your thoughts out. More therapy for you than you could ever imagine. Pray, whenever you feel the burden raise above your heart.

5. KEEP YOUR SPACE FROM THE WAR-WAGER
Chelsea thinks it is cowardice to keep running, but I think that at all cost the only way this war is going to stay single sided is if you keep out of each others way. Let them be and give them a chance to re-energize for the next war ahead of them and you, you also need to refresh from all the negativity you have been surrounded by all day long.

That is for you to stand when the one man war begins, I for one, have seen a friend's envy turn into a determined desire to destroy me and my character but these few key points got me standing even when there was a storm rushing under my feet. At all costs, make peace not war.

Tuesday, November 17, 2015

MAN BY NATURE IS EVIL

Last week ended on a sad note, with the gun-men attacks and suicide bombing in Paris. The world was put in terror once more and the reality that tragedy will show up at anytime of our life was re-echoed to all of us once again. Between praying for Paris, one gets to think of all that life is.
Life can be a lot of things but one thing that sure looks overlapping is the fact that life is a sum of good and bad. One moment of joy coupled with a thousand moments of pain. it is like that all through life, until we breath our last and yet even on such a day, it is a tragedy for the people we leave behind.

But the question, why tragedy makes most of life, can only be explained in the nature and content of humanity, it is innate and we carry it with us. A good man once told me," You cannot tell the nature of man's heart just by the construction of one's face" he also said," Everyone is evil, the difference is our ability to contain  that evil with in us" 

Man by nature, is evil and callous and that has been a cause for a lot of the damage we have in the world. A man raping his own daughter is as bad  as a man shooting innocent people at a theater and as evil as one who chooses to kill another through black magic. It is all evil and it springs forth from the darkness man has within.
You are as capable of killing and destroying as is an eight year old. And that is the reality of the situation man finds himself in.

The cause doesn't spring from, a refugee crisis, or poverty(otherwise, the Arab countries would be at peace), it is not even about the inability to make peace. It is the nature of a man's heart.
Deep within,  man  has decided that the only thing that makes sense, is the blood spilled.It is in their life line that to see a dead person is more joy than anything. It is the hate they carry, the anger they bottle, the pain they've lived, the envy they have, the thrill in killing. It is in the joy they get in causing pain. And that is why tragedy is alive today and each day of our lives.
I am not in the mood to give  a solution to man's making. I would rather settle my heart in knowing, man cannot be all good, man has a level of failing that makes him from time to time a slave to evil. And whether it is me who is enslaved or another, man by nature is evil...the difference is in containing it.

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